Thursday, March 19, 2009

Taking it easy with Mansun and Marion

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There seems to be a 90s revival happening at the moment, lots of rumours flying around about the 'seminal' (I say this with a heavy ...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

empires and dance - simple minds

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It's always an exciting moment when an assumption that you have held for such a long time is irrevocably shattered in the light of a new...
Sunday, February 15, 2009

Here comes everybody - the wake

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In 1985 Scotland's The Wake made the kind of music where you are afraid to sneeze in case you disrupt the delicate melodies; even breath...
Friday, February 13, 2009

new song - Howard Jones

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Seeing Howard Jones on Top of the Pops performing New Song  with a semi-naked man in chains standing beside him is one of my earliest memori...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Pop Always Shines on TV

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Two videos from the 80s which both happen to revolve around the act of watching the television in an otherwise deserted room - Independence ...

When the Postman Doesn't Call on Valentine's Day

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The shops are awash with hearts and flowers and chocolates and all the trappings of a commercially insipid and putrid Valentine's Day.  ...

abc - lexicon of love

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On the subject of Sheffield bands, ABC are another ubiquitous 80s band but once which I feel were right to be lauded, particularly for their...

simple minds - promised you a miracle

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I always mightily disliked Simple Minds, mostly because they are one of those bands like Coldplay and U2 who have that overbearing sense of ...